27 The First Fire Companion (2)
Afterwards, Ah Dan Zhiqi secretly returned to the same place and carried the wood, not to mention lifting it, it is very difficult to make it move.
The wood used to erect the pillars in the army was originally the thickest and strongest of the trees.
After the storm that day, Mulan continued his military life as if nothing had happened. Occasionally, Shan Zhiqi asked about the events of that day in a sighing tone, he scratched his face and asked him with a confused expression:
"What's the matter? What happened that day?"
"That's what you did that day you carried the pillar......"
"Huh? Huo Chang, did the wind blow your eyes too much that day? Who can carry the pillars! Hua Mulan glanced at Edan Zhiqi with a smile, and continued to train as if nothing had happened.
Ah Dan Zhi is only twenty-five years old, and he is not fifty-two years old, so he will naturally not be old and confused. This fire companion who goes in and out with him has such a huge potential, but it is not revealed at all, as a warrior, the suspicion and curiosity in Ah Dan Zhiqi's heart are getting heavier and heavier, to the point of some hysteria.
He began to pay attention to Mulan's qiē.
One night, the soldiers of the new barracks fell asleep because they were too tired from the day's drills. Shan Zhiqi, who woke up in the middle of the night for no reason, found that Hua Mulan, who was in the same account, was not there.
Finally caught!
Like a vulture hovering in the sky, he jumped up with excitement and went out to find Mulan.
He knew that he might find out some kind of secret about this fire companion tonight.
School Farm, Horse Farm, Fire House...... In order to search for Mulan's traces, Edan Zhiqi avoided many patrolling robes, but never found Mulan's shadow.
After looking for about half an hour, when he walked to a shooting range in the corner of the barracks, Hua Mulan, who was practicing archery alone, appeared in front of him.
Under the dim torch illumination of the arrow tower, Mulan's slender figure looked so thin, which was also the reason why Shan Zhiqi was so curious.
How did such a man who didn't look strong lift that log?
Could it be that he knows the "immortal law" of the Han people?
Ah Dan Zhiqi slowed his pace and quietly observed him from a relatively close distance.
Mulan let out a long exhale, pulled out a feather arrow from the large quiver next to her, and gently set up the bowstring.
There was also a pot of torches under the grass target in the distance, and the arrow platform and the grass target became the only two light sources in the arrow range.
Hum hmm......
The arrow that left Mulan's hand went straight to the target that seemed to be shining with fire, and finally left it at the bullseye very neatly.
The arrow was so deeply embedded in the haystack that it looked like it was half short.
This is not what surprised Shan Zhiqi the most, Xianbei people are good at riding and archery, and there is no shortage of good players in this area in the army, what surprised him was the position where Mulan was standing, and his amazing eyesight.
The place of a shot has always referred to a hundred steps. That's why there is a saying of "100 steps through Yang".
But Mulan stood much further back than they practiced archery, and he actually stood about a hundred and fifty paces, opened his bow like a full moon, and then shot out with this tension!
Oh my God, it's night!
His strength is really different from ordinary people.
He shoots arrows with a calm voice.
Hum, bang......
Mulan 66 continued to shoot more than ten arrows, except for one arrow that was slightly skewed due to a sudden gust of wind, the other arrows were left on the target, and the grass target was pierced like a hedgehog's back.
Shan Zhiqi doesn't know what kind of mood he is in hiding in the dark.
Is it envy? Eat one's heart out? And a little bit more...... Anger it.
Mulan's bowstring finally broke.
Yes, Cheng dù, who pulls to the full string again and again, even a hard bow in the army can't withstand it.
With the snap of the bowstring breaking, Mulan let go of her hand as if reflexively, allowing the hard bow in her hand to fall to the ground.
If you are hit by a broken bowstring, your finger will be cut by the bowstring with a deep wound, and it will also cause severe pain. If you have a hand injury, you will not be able to participate in the next day's riding and archery training.
Seeing the habits developed by Mulan's body, Arman Zhiqi knew that Mulan should not have been hit by the bowstring once or twice.
Did he practice archery like this at home?
Which military household has such a warrior in his family, he should have been sent to the army early to make meritorious contributions.
Why should he hide his abilities?
Since he didn't want to show his skills, why did he sneak over in the middle of the night to practice archery?
One question after another came over him.
Shan Zhiqi felt that he was about to be suffocated to death by these questions.
Seeing that the bowstring was broken, Mulan reluctantly tried to reconnect the bowstring, and when she found that there was really no way to do it, she had to mix the hard bow in her hand into a bunch of hard bows for training like a thief.
He laughed at his actions like a prank-up child.
In the next time, Ah Dan Zhiqi watched Mulan trot to the grass target, pulled out the arrows on the target one by one, switched the grass target to another side, and then held the arrow and raised the torch placed next to the arrow target and ran back to the arrow platform, extinguished the two torches and put them in their original positions.
And so it goes.
Such as.[,! It's a no-brainer
"Your archery skills are truly exceptional."
Arman Zhiqi, who was about to suffocate himself, finally came out of the darkness.
His psychology at this time is probably to see if Mulan at this time will say casually "Ah, the wind has fascinated your eyes" and something like that.
Sure enough, Mulan was stunned.
"Fire ...... Fire long?".
On the dark and lightless arrow platform, Mulan and Edan Zhiqi sat side by side.
Hua Mulan knew that when she was seen by the fire chief this time, it would not be a perfunctory sentence of "you read wrong".
Boom, trouble!
This fire elder is really unrelenting.
"Why are you hiding your strength?"
Ah Dan Zhiqi is a typical Xianbei man, his skin is blown dry and chapped under the wind and sand of the desert, even the most gentle voice becomes difficult to hear in the roar of daily training.
Every soldier who starts as a recruit in the desert wind and sand will not have a very good voice.
Mulan was silent.
She was the most silent person in the entire battalion.
"Why?" Shan Zhiqi asked again.
Regarding Ardan Zhiqi's questioning, Mulan knew that she couldn't put it off, so she replied quietly:
"I don't want to die. I don't want to go to the Pioneer Camp."
At that moment, Ah Dan Zhiqi seemed to have suddenly lost the ability to speak.
Entering the pioneer camp at the northern border is the dream of many men in the army.
The eagle of the Chinese army, the tiger of the right army, the hussars of the left army, and the three vanguard battalions are almost everyone in the army looking up to the general existence of the army.
Where the three armies are, the battle is invincible.
This is really a very angry thing, and he only feels a deep sense of disgust for Mulan's words "I don't want to die".
All the thoughtful thoughts about Hua Mulan before, and the deviation of "maybe he has a story" for Hua Mulan, were all thrown into the desert outside Yin Mountain at once.
How much Edan Zhiqi expected him before, and how disgusted he is now.
"You say you're afraid of death? What kind of arrows are you practicing if you are afraid of death! "
Arman Zhiqi stood up angrily and looked at the fire companion like a bedbug.
With such talent, how can you be afraid of war?!
"It's not that I'm afraid of death, it's that I don't want to die." Mulan's amber pupils looked very gentle in the moonlight." Practicing archery is to increase the chances of survival."
What a hell!
He actually felt that Mulan's eyes were very gentle when she said "I don't want to die"!
"What's the difference?!"
Did anyone say that if you go to the pioneer camp, you will definitely die?!
What's more, these military households, who have been soldiers for generations, have long had the consciousness of "not dying in the arms of women"!
"Huo Chang, have you ever heard of the Han people's words of 'jade broken tiles'?"
Hua Mulan looked up at Shan Zhiqi who was standing up.
"Nope! Do you think everyone has an uncle who can write? "
"I heard it when I was very young."
"We rarely fail on the creep, but even then we never sacrifice less than the creep. In the eyes of the Great Khan, we are hard jade, and the Wriggling Man is as indestructible rubble as a clay group. As soon as the army comes out, the worms will crumble and be destroyed to ashes......" Mulan rubbed her forehead.
"But whether it's a broken jade or a broken tile, this tragedy is the same."
He stood up and looked at the sky.
"I'm going to live no matter what. Even if I have a broken hand or a broken foot, I will go home alive......"
In Shan Zhiqi's disdainful eyes, he maintained this posture of looking up with a straight spine, and sighed as if speaking to the sky:
"I'm not afraid of death. I am more afraid than I am dead that my death will change the lives of my family.".
Ah Dan Zhiqi went back in despair, and the impact he received tonight almost subverted his values.
His brother died in the war, his father died in the war, his grandfather died in the war, and his grandparents fought for generations. He was taught from an early age to be brave, to be fearless of death, and to be loyal to the Great Khan.
Everyone who dies is a hero and the pride of Great Wei.
He also has a son, and as long as he is alive and his family has not lost his status as a military household, once his son reaches the age of war, he will inevitably go to the battlefield.
This is the fate of military households.
He knew that Mulan's idea was wrong, but he couldn't blame anything.
Why do people who have already joined the army and gone to the battlefield say such cunning words as "I am not afraid of death, but I do not want to die"?
It's the same as asking someone who steals, "Why do you steal?" and the answer is "I want it" instead of "Why did I steal?"
If you die, will it change your family's life?
What a stupid thing to say, that's going to happen, isn't it!
Shan Zhiqi's firm belief was completely messed up because of this night's conversation.
This man, who was originally eager to make a career on the battlefield, will also begin to imagine when he holds the sword and halberd.
He would remember that he was only three years old when he died. [,! What will become of the son.
He would wonder if his wife, the freshly girl with bright eyes when she laughed, would remarry someone else and become the bride of someone else's family.
His eldest brother has died in battle, and so has his father. If he also dies, who will serve his mother?
All the men of a family died in battle, and the military family is going to lose its inheritance, and in the Adan family, without the status of the military family, even going out will be looked down upon.
It's a terrible thing to think about life and death on the battlefield.
Like a ferocious beast that has been tied to the reins, a sharpened sword has broken its edge.
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"! What do you want to do so much! "Alan Zhiqi cut off the head of a Rouran man with a hideous face." Lao Tzu doesn't kill people, he can live a fart! "
Suddenly awakened, Edan Zhiqi seemed to have just found himself standing on the battlefield, and began to wield a halberd to reap the lives of the enemy.
He's going to make that kid Mulan stupid!
If you want to survive, you have to kill.
If you kill more people, you will definitely come out.
That Mulan, who hesitates like a girl, as long as she doesn't die, will enter the pioneer camp one day, it's nothing more than a matter of time.
Chiefs are not fools!
He squinted at Mulan in the distance.
This is the first time that Mulan has officially participated in the "harvest", and unexpectedly, he is not afraid of fighting, nor does he have any expression of fear of death.
Obviously, they had been in the boot camp before, and they were responsible for guarding the grain and grass or protecting the flanks every time the Rouran people came to harass, and they had never seen such a bloody scene.
Recruits who killed red-eyed and scared recruits who couldn't lift their knives abounded, and at this time, although she was not brave, Mulan, who seemed unusually calm, was extremely eye-catching.
Such people are born warriors!
It is worthy of being the child of the Huaishuo flower family.
He knew that the children from the Horai clan would not be a bad seed!
Kunda and Mo Huai'er, the "bad seeds" who were in the same fire, were already colorless, and their hands were trembling and they couldn't even hold the reins of the horse. The self-confidence of the girl who usually picks her feet and complains that she was not sent out to pursue the Rouran people has long been gone.
There is no difference between Rouran and Xianbei people, and if you really want to fight, all you have to rely on is who has more strength and whose martial arts are stronger.
He is only a fire chief, not a general, and he protects them from eating and drinking, but cannot protect their safety.
He still wants to live!
Whizzing.
Two arrows rushed forward, one first and one in the back of the hearts of the two soft people.
The Rouran cavalry, charging towards Kunda and Mo Huai'er, fell from their horses in a daze, the sharp pain in their shoulders and backs that made them unable to hold the reins any longer. Leaving only the horse to gallop forward, after losing its rider, it galloped away to the side.
Kunda and Mo Huai'er were saved by this sharp arrow that fell from the sky, and looked ahead gratefully.
Directly ahead, Hua Mulan, with a complicated expression, glanced around the battlefield, turned the horse's head around the reins, and trotted backwards.
The Rouran people in front of them have been defeated, and the Rouran people who have rushed into the formation have also been shot clean by the Chinese army, and there is no need to continue the slaughter.
"Mulan, where are you going! Returning to the team to clean up the battlefield is a military achievement! "
"Go ahead, I'll take a look at the back!"
"Hey, hey, our mission this time is to rush and kill with the Chinese army!"
"Isn't it already harvested?" Mulan swept by their side like a gust of wind.
"Forget it, we'll cut the worm's head for him! How many did he kill?"
"Seven or eight?"
"Hack to death the one who shoots off the horse first!" Ah Dan Zhiqi ran to the two fire companions, and before he could say a word, he suddenly jumped up when he saw the situation in front of him.
"Hey, the one over there! Those two corpses were killed in the fire! Don't you see an arrow in your back! Put it down for Lao Tzu! "
"Lao Tzu said to put it down!"
Mulan hates this one-sided slaughter very much.
But the Xianbei people did not leave "worming" prisoners on the battlefield, and the Rouran people also knew that they would not be able to spare their lives even if they surrendered.
So as long as the war is fought at the beginning, it will end up in a never-ending situation.
How could she die?
If she dies, she will not be able to keep her identity as a woman. The bones of the war dead are difficult to preserve. In order to leave the relics and erect a burial mound, the fire companion had to remove all the clothes and accessories of the robe and bring it back to the deceased's house.
If her identity as a woman is exposed, she will not have the qualifications to be around her.
The dishonorable future that her family will encounter, she will feel suffocated even if she imagines it.
How could she let her grandfather be immersed in the nightmare of "I forced my daughter to death" for the rest of her life?
Mulan said that she was not afraid of death, and this is not a lie.
Every time she stepped into battle, she would get a strange sense of tranquility. It seems that this battlefield is her home, the place she is most familiar with.
The sound of the horn in her ears, the sound of the fight, the sound of gold and iron when the weapons intersected, all made her tremble and excited, from her hair to her bone marrow.
The blood of the enemy is calling her, the wail of the enemy is like a drum music, she is like a sharp blade sealed in a box, desperate to rush into the enemy formation with the Chinese army to "harvest".
It's just that the more excited she is, the more calm she has to show that she is calmer than excited to suppress it.
She can't. [,! Turning herself into a killing tool like everyone else, she wants to live, not be a live target.
She just needs to live.
However, seeing that the fire companion was in distress, she couldn't help but raise her longbow and shoot the two enemies from a distance.
Even if it's two lewd men who can only brag, scatter, grind their teeth when they sleep, snore, smell their feet and like to pick their feet indiscriminately.
She hated their every move, but she didn't hate them to the point of watching them die.
One hundred and forty paces, she glanced at the battlefield, and no one seemed to notice the distance.
Grandpa, it's too hard not to be out of line.
How can you live without being out of line?
I should have asked you in last month's letter.